Joaquin Villalobos

Joaquin Villalobos (1951-) was a Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) commander during the Salvadoran Civil War; since the war's end, he has renounced leftism and lives in England.

Biography
Joaquin Villalobos was born in 1951 in El Salvador, and in 1980 he joined the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) after being a part of a left-wing Catholic and Marxist group, the People's Revolutionary Army of El Salvador. He was an economics student before the Salvadoran Civil War, but he became one of the main military strategists of the FMLN noted for ruthlessness. After the Salvadoran Civil War, he moved to England and renounced his former leftist views, living in Oxfordshire.